Yeah, right. In two years Moncton and Fredericton suddenly got ‘stupid’. In two years all these communities suddenly ‘smartened up’. The organization that runs this is a broadband organization, all it means is that these communities started some wifi inititiatives.

Didn’t we just have a blog discussion about these fickle lists? They are a short-lived source of ‘feel-good’. We need to identify consistent, meaningful benchmark data that can be monitored from year to year and are free of subjectiveness. Provincial GDP, exports, employment, average salary would be good starting points. The agencies and economic people tend to avoid this concrete data since our progress is so poor. As long as fluff is accepted as progress, no one holds them accountable.

@mikel
It actually means that more cities are paying to get listed. So it is natural that Moncton and Fredericton got “dumbed down”.
All you have to do is look at the list of Smart21 of 2009 and you will draw the same conclusion.